The Union Budget allocated ₹94,853.64 crore for education sector in 2019-20. Of the total ₹94,853. 64 crore education budget, ₹56,536.63 crore has been pegged for the school sector and rest ₹38,317.01 crore has been allocated to the higher education. The mid-day meal program has been allocated ₹11,000 crore. The Budget allocated the teachers training and adult education only ₹125 crore. While the numbers are impressive, but rural India wants more

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National award winning teacher Meenakshi Goswami is the principal of a village school in Sonitpur district of Assam. Its 850 students are well-versed in Bihu and Bagurumba folk dances, and can play the traditional musical instruments of dhol, pepa and gogona.

Inspired by his father who set up the first private school in Budgam, J&K, and educated underprivileged children free of cost, Sayed Abdul Rouf, a retired joint secretary, followed suit by establishing a school in his father’s name that also provides free education to orphans and children from economically backward families.

For young girls in villages, education is a luxury. But most of them are forced to discontinue their studies even before completing secondary education. Besides safety issues, there are many reasons behind their dropping out. In order to understand the roadblocks, Gaon Connection interviewed many girls in villages in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh

Despite no salaries for four years, teachers of the Abhayaran Sikshan Samiti Higher Secondary School in Mungeli district in Chhattisgarh, have stayed on. They are awaiting a government grant, which will help the school stay afloat and continue to impart education to Gond and Baiga tribal children.

Urfana Amin Moharken uses waste materials, such as cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, and old newspapers, as teaching aids for mathematics and science. She has also developed a joyful learning curriculum for Early Childhood Care and Education, which was implemented by the State Institute of Education.

As this year draws to a close, we revisit two unique publications released by Gaon Connection. While the ‘100 Tales of Teachers Transforming Education in Rural India’ celebrated the successful stories of rural teachers, the Climate Connection Report 2023 chronicled 75 stories of climate change from rural India.

For the past three decades, national award winning teacher Gamchi Timre R Marak has been providing education in remote town Williamnagar in northeast India.